Every single day there is news of a catastrophe: a ship sinks, houses burn down, or there is a hurricane that wipes out whole regions. We hear about people who are murdered, or who die suddenly of a thousand different things. There are crane, train and plane catastrophes as well. Then there are sudden accidents, divorces, job losses, economic news, changes in life situations, kidnappings and child abuse cases. In an instant lives are changed forever.
Military people in war are feeling greater and greater levels of stress. Is it possible that their stress is not just their location alone, but their connection to the volume of events happening at home as well?
How do we as humans begin to process not just each individual case, but frankly, the sheer volume of astounding, heart-wrenching information day after day?
How do we as caring souls offer compassion from our internal well, without wondering sometimes, if that well is becoming dry?
How do we balance the sadness with happiness? If something bad happens to us personally, how does one ever feel that they can be happy again?
It used to be that only caregivers, and professionals in certain fields had to face these sad things day after day. No more, with the Internet, and other instantaneous methods of communication we are now no more than a moment away from being horrified, astounded and outraged.
One of the elements to all of this is the concept of being connected, psychically with all that is happening. The Hawaiian Huna tradition, explains that we are connected to everything we have ever seen, touched or been a part of as well as everyone we have ever met and every place we have ever been, through something called ‘aka’ cords. Aka cords are thin blue strands of energy that emanate out from our solar plexus, just beneath the breastbone. The more we are electronically connected with people, places and things, the more we are energetically and psychically connected. Literally, we are all becoming more and more linked to the tragedies and the catastrophes that we see. All of these things are affecting everyone on the planet, whether they want to be connected to them or not. Perhaps that concept of five degrees of separation is now reduced to a threadbare, three or four. What we will eventually realize is that to maintain our emotional well being, we have to maintain something called karmic balance.
So, how does it work, this concept called karmic balance? How can we bring meaning to what appears to be senseless death, bizarre violence or nature’s fury? We find balance by focusing on things to be happy about and grateful for what already exists in our lives. We can also focus on truly enjoying the moment we are in for often each of these wonderful moments will eventually become precious memories. We must also learn to practice detached compassion. We can send prayer without attaching to the emotion of the situation. This goes a very long way in helping all of us to maintain mental balance.
Ultimately, however, we need to remember that karma is always fair and that just because we cannot see the big picture regarding this tsunami, plane crash or murder, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. We never know what karma any type of death or destruction is satisfying, group karmic disaster rebalancing, or what lessons there are for all the players to learn. Perspective, non-judgment and patience can get us through the roller coaster of emotions many of us are seeing each day.
As painfully hard as it frequently is, step back from any of these events and look for the obvious and the peripheral lessons everyone is going to learn. If there were no lessons to be learned, then human beings would not have any of those experiences in the first place. We are here for experiences and often these poignantly precious lessons are powerful karmic balancers. In the schoolhouse that is mortal life on Earth there are many degrees of experience to acquire and karma has a tremendous responsibility to provide all of them to us throughout all of the lives we will eventually live, including the really hard ones. The more fully we embrace each experience, learn each lesson and then grow, the fewer difficult experiences we will see repeated in our lives. It is this perspective that will ultimately enable us to observe what is happening around us, with a greater degree of wisdom and compassion.
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